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>> very poorly frankly we will not have sources on the ground the over the horizon attacks that was carried out was quite limited in effectiveness and every american or afghan ally left behind is a potential victim or hostage remember the taliban loves taking hostages they have done this before the puts us in an extraordinarily difficult position and remember afghanistan is landlocked. one way in by air and one way out. we dont have friends in the neighborhood to provide us the intelligence we w...

Administration, no? >> their diplomatic power means squat. to another point they have been making on that system front, we have leverage of billions of dollars held in banks. that is no leverage whatsoever for a group that came to power without one of those dollars, why our intelligence community is putting such an emphasis on that? it is simply a talking point for them that does not add up to get anyone out at the moment the last service member leaves ground in afghanistan. you look at, that an...

Depending on the americans, so they were not particularly i interested about what is going on with russia and china. i think the ball is - in the american camp. they are the only superpower now. europe is no longer— a superpower because it doesnt have, as i said, i a defence policy. so definitely the ball- is in the us camp and i think the us has to show again . leadership, which has been missing now for a long time. just briefly then, jeffrey, who does the united states partner with in the re...

>> im not that hopeful. i would put this in terms of a stream. we go from a stream to a trickle. you mentioned leverage to get people out. we have some economic leverage. clarissa ward and others have talked about the taliban wanting to participate in an international community -- not because theyre nice guys. theyre not going to evolve. just because theres a lot of money involved there. you start thinking about food, energy. youve got to get access to that international money. that said, let me...

To get them through other routes. as griff jenkins pointed out, it is a very difficult neighborhood. pakistan is heavily aligned with the taliban in the tribal areas. the difficulties with iran and uzbekistan and others are heavily influenced by russia and not very cooperative. so were in a terrible situation. this notion that we have leverage over the taliban. let me tell you having sat across the table from these thugs. they will turn it on this team very quickly. every time they dont get acce...

>> good morning. youre right. there is enormous pressure on secretary blinken today with just hours to go before that airport under attack, under immense threats is set to be turned over to the taliban with some americans and thousands of afghan allies certain to be left behind. blinken is reassuring everybody he is confident -- we heard jake sullivan in the previous report. blinken who is in charge state department has the lead on the non-combatant evacuation. he is confident those left behind ...

In a neighboring countries have been sympathetic to them like the pakistan government has always been sympathetic so they have a friendly neighbor as well three have little or no leverage to get her people out or our allies. >> one thing that has been encouraging is to see the americans come back working with their former interpreters communicating with them to get back to the airport may have heard from many in my state they have been working overnight to get to their friends and allies out of ...

Going past august 31st. we have very significant leverage to incentivize the taliban to make good on its commitments. todd: steve, are you confident in that leverage that antony blinken discusses? >> absolutely not. president biden, the white house gave the taliban leverage. weve got thousands of americans stranded there. could you imagine giving them a list of americans and believing that the talibans going to escort them to the airport? you handed our enemies exactly what they needed to have l...

Korea or germany. its not. thats not how this works. were not getting suicide bombs in korea and having our soldiers that we train turn on us and shoot us in the back. thats what was happening in afghanistan for quite a while. >> let me ask quickly, what do you think can happen for the people still left behind? are there other exit strategies? can we possibly trust the taliban for amnesty when theres already retaliation going on in the provinces? >> so, yes, there are over-land routes that some ...

Mark: congressman crenshaw, the terrorists are empowered by nation state enemies of ours are empowered too. they are not going to take joe biden seriously, i am worried most about communist china, taiwan, putin and ukraine and israel. and iran. what are your thoughts? >> i think that is right. there is strategic plunders here and tactical blunders as well. from a strategic stand point, these competitors like china, and iran. that is always looking for leverage over the united states, and for tho...